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Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card

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Receipted bill, Nicholas Roosevelt to Nicholas Bayard
May 15, 1766
Letter, "I estimate that an attack..."
1834
Miss Vanity's Holiday
After 1859
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
October 1660- June 1663
The N. O. massacre
1866
State of Delaware response to Tilton
September 12, 1864
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
1932
Letter of George P. Bowers to Ferguson and Walker
1844
The Crayon
1855
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock
1860
Heedless Johnny
1870
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
1697
A Song for the times, or John Brown
1860-1870
"In relation to Foreign Nations." Draft of Federalist #64
ca. 1788
A Catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern hemisphere : with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas...
1787
Loss of the packet ship Albion
1822
The definitive treaty of peace and friendship, between His Britannick Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the King of Spain : concluded at Paris, the 10th day of February, 1763, to which, the King of Portugal acceded on the same day...
1763
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
1835
"St. Nicholas. Dec. 6th. A.D. 343"
1810
Ledger, 1678-1684
1678-1684
Grant's the man.
1864
First Report of the Committee of the Whole Convention
1787
New School Building
ca. 1816-1826
Thoughts on African Colonization
1832
Declaration of Independence
1776

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